Last time this orchid flowered it did the same.

I repotted in fresh compost, standing up in the middle of the pot and quite well down in the compost I thought but it has done it again. Moved over to the side of the pot and come quite far out of the compost. The flower is nearly on the floor when stood on a low coffee table.

Has anyone and suggestions how to keep it firmly in the centre of the pot with its roots in the compost?

If like me, you sell stuff on ebay here is a handy tool that could make you think twice about the price you are listing stuff at!

https://www.ebayfeescalculator.com/uk-ebay-calculator/

I am using it for my listings for stuff from now on and if I can only make a pittance in profit, the item gets binned (mainly books) or better still becomes woodburner fuel.

Do any of you grow beans in the same place each year?
I'd hopefully like to grow them up the greenhouse frame again next year.

   

I harvested this Sharks Fin Melon three years ago and it appears to be as good today as it was then. The Dr Pepper can is for scale only.

If I was to cut into the melon, do you reckon the seeds would still be usable for sowing next spring? I think its a thing of beauty and am reluctant to cut into it without a strong possibility that the seeds would be fertile.

I've often thought about sowing annual mimulus but then read that it likes damp conditions and discounted it because I'm on stony flinty dry soil.  Now my pal who does not garden has a couple of pots of yellow and orange mimulus on her quite sheltered patio that she says come back every year.  When I asked if she did anything special with them she just looked at me quizzically and asked 'like what?'  So she gave me a small root of each and they are now filling 8" pots in the GH.  Common sense says they'll be ok in there over winter without much attention,  what's your opinion?   Are there different  varieties, i.e. annual and perennial?

Hi all,

I lost a small earring yesterday - potentially while forking over the lawn to prep it for turf. We are hoping to borrow or hire a metal detector to look for it, despite the unlikelihood of finding it, as it's important to me. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience of metal detectors and could provide any advice (what I'd need to find a small stud earring made of white gold, technique, etc).

Thanks very much,
mopeyjonah

So we’ve had a roast for our tea. Bob seems to think I always cook to many vegetables to accompany it ! I know nuts, right ? I don’t think 9 varieties is too many, do you ? That includes the roast potatoes   . 

How many do you have ?

Our kitchen widow looks out onto next door's wall.  They are no longer gardeners, so to improve the view I plant, with their permission, some marigolds in the very small dry border underneath the wall.  Their ivy was getting out of control so we chopped its stems and it is now dying off.  We will in time remove the ivy from the wall, and dig out the roots hopefully leaving the existing trelllis.  Next door blithely says they would like a climber up the trellis, but it is I that will have to source, water and maintain this climber    so I want pretty or pleasant to look at, low maintenance and able to survive dry conditions.  W

I'm asking for plant suggestions.  Paul would like something good to look at while he washes up.  I have thought variegated ivy which is less thuggish than wild ivy ( plus I can take cuttings of some I already have), clematis but their flowering period is relatively short and can look tatty.  Not virginia creeper it is messy ( I think) .  If annual, it will be me that has to propagate it so easy ones please.

Here's pic of site it faces NW

   

We’ve got a mix of trees to be planted hopefully soon. They will do much better in the ground than in pots. 
What spacing would you give them ? 

The trees are. 2 hazel, 2 oak, 1 rowan, 1 beach (might go as hedging), 1 Douglas fir, 3 morello cherry (might go as hedging), 2 willow ( might go as hedging) , 1 can’t remember the name gem/gen something like that & 1 redwood .

I was thinking 1 1/2 - 2m between them in all directions.

We’re well on our way Choosing the Chillies & sweet peppers for next year. I thought we should do the same for everything else as well.

My list is definitely only a rough outline. I’ve not really given it much thought! About time I did.

In 
1 Tromboncino 
1 Buffalo horn tomato 
1 Rosella tomato 
2-3 buckets Carrots 
5-6 Red cabbage 
4-5 Broccoli 
2-3 kale
1 Spaghetti squash 
1 Cucumber 
Some Lettuce/salad 
Asparagus & rhubarb because it’s already there. 
And obviously the already mentioned chillies & sweet peppers 

Everything else is out because I’ll be a builder not gardener next year